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Topic: Activists get math paper rescinded (Read 688 times)

Paper rescinded and NSF acknowledgement removed. I don't recall there ever being censorship like this based on politics except for Lysenkoism in the USSR and Galileo during the Inquisition. I'm not sure this has ever happened in a modern democracy. We are living in very strange times.

Paper rescinded and NSF acknowledgement removed. I don't recall there ever being censorship like this based on politics except for Lysenkoism in the USSR and Galileo during the Inquisition. I'm not sure this has ever happened in a modern democracy. We are living in very strange times.

It doesn't matter what is true or false if the left doesn't like it.

This is a great interview with Nadine Strossen who is dismayed at even the ACLU's abandonment of the freedom of speech.

I shouldn't have said activists. Make that very well-respected accomplished scientists get paper rescinded for political reasons. Its not really the Left. Its the establishment. In the past we had the brilliant accomplished people fighting against censorship. Now they are fighting for it. Amy Wilkinson is no slouch:https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=eUwz338AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

I shouldn't have said activists. Make that very well-respected accomplished scientists get paper rescinded for political reasons. Its not really the Left. Its the establishment. In the past we had the brilliant accomplished people fighting against censorship. Now they are fighting for it. Amy Wilkinson is no slouch:https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=eUwz338AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

The important part isn't scientist vs. activist, it is "for political reasons".

At a faculty meeting the week before, the Department Head had explained that sometimes values such as academic freedom and free speech come into conflict with other values to which Penn State was committed.

Ouch! Truth isnít truth if itís inconvenient to some believes! Pretty sad for a university.

Opinion: Free speech should take precedence over uncomfortable opinions and the author appears reasonable (but only his side has been submitted).

Humble perspective: paper publication can be a relatively messy procedure and this kind of focused "political" interference, if true as described, IMO is more an exception rather than a rule or an "institutionalized" and "rotten to the core" process.